In February 1971, a young FBI agent who had just been transferred to Bureau Headquarters

gets a message he wasn't expecting, the director wants to see him.

The director, of course, is J. Edgar Hoover, a man who ruled the FBI with an iron fist

for decades.

The young agent walks into his office with deep trepidation.

Hoover sits him down across from his polished desk and he talks, stream of consciousness

for nearly three hours about the FBI's war against the mafia, about his relationship with

John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy, but most of all he talks about a man who was

his personal nemesis, Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader.

Hoover opens up about King, about why he disliked him, and why the FBI secretly wire tapped

him.

Hoover said some startling things that day, providing rare insights into one of the most

epic feuds in modern American history.

And this week, as the country commemorates the 50th anniversary of the assassination of

Martin Luther King Jr., that once young FBI agent who spoke to Hoover, Oliver Buck Rebell

is with us now on today's episode of Buried Treasure.

I'm Michael Isikov, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

And I'm Dan Clyde, Beneditor and Chief of Yahoo News.

You know, Dan, it's a rare treat for, I think both of us who are both sort of love to

immerse ourselves in the history of the FBI to have with us, Oliver Buck Rebell, who was

an FBI agent for 30 years, had an amazing career rose to the rank of Associate Deputy Director

and was involved in some of the most momentous cases of his era and wrote a great book about

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